Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble is, these shipbuilders all run into the same problem: shortages as seemingly endless as the rivets in a ship. Example: it was originally planned to equip destroyer escorts with steam turbines just like destroyers. But these turbines require hard-to-get herringbone reduction gears made by firms like De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Milwaukee's Falk Co. and the Farrel-Birmingham Co. Hence a switch was made to turbo and diesel electric drives. But this has run into a shortage of diesel engines and electrical equipment...
...Britain cannot resume her oldtime trade position which originated in the 18th Century with the steam engine and the power loom. "India does not want Britain's cheap cotton goods, even if Lancashire cotton operatives are willing to accept very low wages; but it will offer them high wages if they are prepared to make and send out wireless sets instead...
...thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...
...radio, and he had made the lights blink; now he would turn his skill to a more essential task than trying to induce merryment. Thus it was that the Narthex emeritus journeyed to the wilds of Dublin, N. H. and there did perfect a marvelous machine which ran on steam...
...narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12 to 14 feet in length with wooden paddles on one end are the agents for placing leaves in and removing them from the ovens. In the baking of French bread the crowning touch is the use of steam jets on the hot loaves to produce a perfect crust...